British merchant Thomas Blake Glover begins business…

September 1859 CE

British merchant Thomas Blake Glover begins business in Nagasaki, Japan, in September 1859.

Employed by the trading company Jardine Matheson, he works initially buying Japanese green tea.

Two years later, he will found his own firm, Glover and Co. (Guraba-Shokai).

His business is based in Nagasaki, and it is here that he has his home constructed, the building that remains today as the oldest Western-style building in Japan.

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Japan, Tokugawa, or Edo, Period View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Jardine, Matheson & Co. View →

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